Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:52:01 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Erik Udo <erik.u@dnainternet.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Messed up my partition Message-ID: <200410231052.34712.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <417A04BC.9040507@dnainternet.net> References: <417957A7.30602@dnainternet.net> <200410221732.47647.mistry.7@osu.edu> <417A04BC.9040507@dnainternet.net>
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--nextPart2081330.dWRU1DDmjB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 23 October 2004 03:14 am, you wrote: > Anish Mistry wrote: > >On Friday 22 October 2004 02:55 pm, Erik Udo wrote: > >>My boot loader wansn't working properly and i didn't find my 5.2.1 > >>install cd, so i grabbed 4.4(or is that 4.6) install cd, and chose fdis= k, > >>marked the freebsd partition bootable(S), and wrote changes. > > > >You should be able to use gpart on a bootable cd (Freesbie or knoppix) to > >recover the partition table. > > I had gpart running all night, it didn't find my slices. > > I made my partition exactly the way it was, and mounted /dev/ad0s3, > it worked! i got my data back. But the slice was missing. > So do you have any idea how to recover a lost slice? > I tried scan_ffs but it gave me input/output error :( > Scan_ffs seemed to work fine first, and i was thinking about sending big > thanks to > the one who wrote that, but no... Well scan_ffs would have been my suggestion. When I used it last to recove= r a=20 completely hosed FreeBSD partition table it worked like a dream. Just want= =20 to check your terminology since scan_ffs only recovers FreeBSD partition=20 info: DISK SLICE1 (FreeBSD) Partition a Partition b etc... SLICE2 (Windows) NTFS SLICE3 (Linux) ext3 SLICE4 So are you saying scan_ffs can't rebuild your FreeBSD partitions or that gp= art=20 wasn't able to recover a slice? =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart2081330.dWRU1DDmjB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBenAyxqA5ziudZT0RAto/AJ4wLA4Fttk4/MaMz4yynNRGxtXt/ACfRnal deDah90OdLslhMvZ/aLhnx0= =OW83 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2081330.dWRU1DDmjB--
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